My Workshop

As part of our community project, we had to plan a workshop for our target audience. As our musical is for children between the ages 4-10, my workshop would try to fit in enough easy and fun stuff for the younger children and maybe something more energetic and harder for the older children within the group. Here's a bullet point break down of how my workshop would go:

1. Do a name exercise- say their name with an action which relates to them, then the rest of the group has to repeat it. After everyone has done their action play 'catch' with the names, so one person doing the name and action of another and so on. 
2. Play Tag- this will warm them up and get their bodies ready for the routines later.
3. Vocal warm up- Get them to stand in circle and do the scale lyrics to warm up their voices. I would explain that this was to warm up their vocal chords ready for the singing later. 
4. Explain the Pooh Sticks scene- and get them to do a short fun improvised scene, with some of the kids playing the characters and the others reacting. 
5. Teach them the chorus to If He Were Here, then split them in two so each could perform to the other.
6. Next I would divide the group into slightly older and younger: teaching the younger the Pooh Sticks routine and the elder the Guilty sequence. 
7. Finally each group would show their routine to the other.
8. As a cool down I would get them lying on the floor with their eyes shut, thinking about the scene they would love the be in best (pooh, alice or pan) and breathing in the space. I would also talk about the message of our piece and see what their favorite books were and if their view of reading had changed.